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Check out this really blasphemous take on Jesus Christ. It’s surprisingly awesome.
Welcome to the ongoing adventures of JESUS CHRIST, by Eric Peterson and Ethan Nicolle. Check in every week to read the exploits of Jesus Christ– savior of mankind and die hard action hero.

The line art is very good for a webcomic, and the [...]

Back in 1994, when I was still in… the first or second grade, and when the local comic industry was just starting to really take off, a young Filipino comic book artist by the name of Gerry Alanguilan came up with Wasted. It told the story of this heartbroken and very angry dude called Eric. [...]

I feel a bit sorry that the Philippine comic industry isn’t getting more attention, because it clearly deserves more. Like, I only knew about Arnold Arre’s The Mythology Class just recently, three years after the special collected edition was launched (and nine years after the original series!). I feel a bit disheartened that most [...]

I have to admit, Batman: The Killing Joke was a bit underwhelming for me.
It’s not that it wasn’t good, or it wasn’t worth the money I paid. Quite the contrary. It was both of those, and how. The origin of Batman’s crazy archnemesis told in an equally manic fashion garners a buy from me anyday. [...]

So I just finished reading Watchmen, and I have to say, it is one of the deepest graphic novels I’ve read.

Most of the novels that float around now, while having their own artistic and literary merits, tend to focus too much on fantastic and otherworldly concerns. There’s too little social relevance. Now that might not [...]